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  • From: Lisa Perry <lkvp AT floydva.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fighting Creationist, Anti-Science scum
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:31:06 -0500

tvoivozhd wrote:

The New York Times - January 19, 2005
*OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR*
Caught Between Church and State
*By SUSAN JACOBY *

Texas, then as now one of the largest textbook purchasers, led the drive to extirpate evolution. "I am a Christian mother," said Gov. Miriam Ferguson of Texas." "And I am not going to let that kind of rot go into Texas textbooks." Mrs. Ferguson personally censored textbooks while presiding over the statehouse from 1924 to 1926. Censorship was soon institutionalized in a state commission that scrutinized all potential textbooks.

These articles from the Associated Press are in today's issue of The Roanoke Times, I have not included every paragraph.
PA Students Hear About 'Intelligent Design'

Harrisburg, Pa. -- High school students heard about 'intelligent design' for the first time Tuesday in a school district that attracted national attention by requiring students to be made aware of it as an alternative to the theory of evolution.

Administrators in the Dover Area School District read astatement to three biology classes Tuesday and were expected to read it to other classes today, according to a statement from the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., speaking on the district's behalf.

The district is believed to be the only one in the nation to require students to hear about a concept that holds that the universe is so complex, it had to be created by an unspecified guiding force.
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School Officials in Georgia Want 'Theory' Stickers

Marietta, Ga. -- Members of a suburban district's school boatrd plan to challenge a federal judge's order to remove stickers in science textbooks that call evolution "a theory, not a fact."

In a 5-2 vote, the Cobb County school board decided to appeal last week's ruling.

Board members said U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper's order to remove the stickers immediately "amounts to unnecessary judicial intrusion into localcontrol of schools," according to a statement.
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